THE SIGN HERALDING THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN. "As soon as the distress of those days has passed, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give her light, the stars* will fall from the sky, the celestial powers will be shaken. Then will appear in heaven the sign that heralds the Son of Man. All the peoples of the world will make lamentation, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with great power and glory. With a trumpet blast he will send out his angels, and they will gather his chosen from the four winds, from the farthest bounds of heaven on every side." (Matt 24:29-31 NEB).
In Isaiah 14:12 reference is
given to a particular "star": "How you have fallen from heaven,
bright morning star, felled to the earth, sprawling helpless across the
nations!" (NEB).
This prophecy describes the downfall of the "dragon" satan and his
many demon angels ("stars") to the vicinity of the earth: "he swept down a third of the stars*
in the sky and flung them to the earth."
(Rev 12:4
NEB).
"Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels waged war upon
the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought, but they had not the strength to
win, and no foothold was left them in heaven.
So the great dragon was thrown down, that serpent of old that led the whole
world astray, whose name is satan, or the devil
'Star'
is also the name given to human dungy idols on earth:
To film stars, pop
stars, etc. But these
and many more high-ranking ones considered to be the 'leading lights'
among mankind will die, and their corpses become food for the birds.
"Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried aloud to all the birds
flying in mid
When their contempt
for Almighty God their Creator is revealed to mankind by the Spirit arrival of
The Christ Michael the "Son of Man" "on the clouds of heaven",
the evil influence of satan and his demons will be removed from those they
inhabited, and will cause in Godless mankind a burning sense of shame, as it is
written: "One man shall look aghast at another, and their faces shall burn
with shame." (Isaiah 13:6
All the peoples of the world that
have shown contempt for Almighty God will lament. "Then those
who have misused My Law will be taken by surprise;
their
contempt for it will bring them continual torment. All who in
their lifetime failed to acknowledge Me in spite of all the good things I had
given them, all who disdained My Law while freedom still was theirs, who
scornfully dismissed the thought of penitence while the way was still open
Then satan the devil (Gog) and his demon cohorts (Magog) will be thrown into the abyss for a thousand years, "that he might seduce the nations no more till the thousand years are over." (From Rev 20:2,3 NEB). "When the thousand years are over, satan will be let loose from his dungeon; and he will come out to seduce the nations in the four quarters of the earth and to muster them for battle, yes the hosts of Gog and Magog". After which: Spirit "fire came down on them from heaven and consumed them; and the devil, their seducer, was flung into the lake of fire and sulphur where the beast and false prophet had been flung, there to be tormented day and night forever." (From Rev 20:7-10 NEB).
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